Entering Russia had always been easy. Josh hadn’t been worried about that part. He’d honestly thought the hardest part would be getting in the castle, but all the guards on duty were either rookies or incompetent in a fight. Dispatching them easily, Josh had twelve men with them and they charged in with him with faux bravado.
Their faces showed nothing, but inside they knew they were marching with a mad man going to get them killed. And they walked the death row march with a look of solemn.
Storming every room, for a moment, Josh thought no one was home. It would explain why security was so lax, and everything so cute. But as he got to the ballroom he expected to be empty, he found Alianna. She was standing there in a cloak wearing a dark blue dress.
When she turned to look at him
